Weekly Photo Challenge

Meant to do another photo collage but as Wednesday had past, this was slightly overdue 😛

Decided to do a tiled gallery theme for this entry – as versus to my usual combining of photos into a Photo Collage app such as Instamag, PhotoGrid.

The theme here is – Colours of Arab Street. Snapped this on a random Sunday afternoon walk after lunch. Despite having gone to Arab Street before, this is actually my 1st time spotting these beautiful wall murals that give Arab Street a more colourful feel.

A good 4 + months since the last photo challenge and so, its time for another one!

Although I’m late by a week, this challenge really speaks out to me as 2017 has been pretty much a ‘GREEN’ year for me!

Starting from Li Chun 2017 where the lucky colour for my zodiac is green, and I wore green to bank in my money. In terms of money inflow for this year, so far so good. Customs aside, more important is to keep an abundance mindset.

And of course, when I finally decided to use some of my shopping vouchers to get a yoga towel (i.e. got a Manduka eQua Yoga Mat Towel eventually) – it was co-incidentally green as well. Together with my Yoga Inc umbrella (free gift from package purchase) – that was also green!

So we have 2 different shades of green here 😛

Still on Yoga Inc. Always love practicing at Gulliemard Branch where it feels more rustic, calm and serene. Especially when I go for Sunday morning YIN class.

Spotted this cute little swing (also in green) when I left the studio after class to go towards the same gate to get to Old Airport Road Food Centre.

Finally non-yoga related. A bowl of healthy and hearty bibimbap with lots of greens from Paik’s Bibim (a franchise outlet of Baek Jong Won’s Food Empire from South Korea).

The original challenge entry here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/it-is-easy-being-green/

Finally managed to find some photos that fit into this week’s theme – Chaos.

As documented on this blog, around this time last year (1st half of November 2015), I had my 11 day vacation to Japan. Had intended to do a summary/round-up of day trip to Karuizawa (from Tokyo) but it came to nil as I’m blogging a lot lesser these days. And so, this will serve in part as part walk down memory lane / reminiscence of my trip last year 🙂

Another ‘deserted’ house we came across later along the hike to the pond.

I would term this as peace amongst chaos. While the walking/hiking trail looked messy due to the overgrown trees …… however it felt very peaceful walking through while enjoying the crisp clean air (as Karuizawa is a mountain resort in Nagano Prefecture).

Back with yet another photo challenge entry. And this time round, I managed to get a photo whilst doing my outdoor run on Tues evening ……

This is a sculpture located at a block of stairs out the Asian Civilisation Museum. There used to be an Indochine Outlet right above the steps but looks like it has closed down, thus rather empty surroundings.

The dimmed lights all around did give the sculpture a nice spotlight effect, thus stopped my run a bit and took a picture to use for this photo challenge (entirely unplanned and spontaneous photo taking :P).

Taking a break from my travel entries to do another weekly photo challenge entry. Time for some cover worthy pictures!

Was browsing through Japan Guide website yesterday and came across this Kyoto feature. Realised that I had a similar shot of Tenryuji Temple taken during my trip last year – taken from outside the temple where the room acts as a sort of ‘frame’ for the Koyo/Autumn Leaves. After some post-editing using Snapseed to submit this picture for a photo contest a couple month back, the colours looked pretty similar post-editing to the one highlighted in Japan Guide. Also mine was taken on 20th November 2013 …… just a few days apart. Nice co-incidence 🙂

Another one of my favourite shots, also taken in Kyoto …… when I was leaving Kiyomizudera. Unlike the 1st picture, no filter for this.

And also my favourite ‘egg-yolk’ sunset shot taken on top of the Tempozan Ferris Wheel in Osaka. Similarly, no filter. Used this as the cover photo for my personal facebook as well 🙂

And one more …… this time from my 2012 Winter trip. One of my favourites as well of the Tokyo Metropolitian Government Building. Took this as we took the short walk from our hotel (Shinjuku Washington) to the observatory located in this building. The juxtaposition of the winter trees shorn of its leaves contrasted against the building was just perfect ……

The quene outside mega popular Sushi Dai that has barely moved (even after we finished our meal at the next door Sushi Daiwa within an hour).

November 2013: Japan Autumn Trip

One of my favourite shots taken at Kiyomizudera Temple, Kyoto. A large group of school children (probably from Tokyo) on excursion.

August 2014: Hong Kong & Macau Summer Trip

We spotted a old lady selling egg-based pancakes at a corner shop in Senado Square (whilst on route to the St. Paul Ruins). To be able to do such a manual work, and facing the heat of the pans day in day out is a legend by itself. She gets my thumbs up!

Did 1 exploration earlier back in end March …… and since I wanted to get out of the house for a short while to soak in some sunlight (more for motivation reasons, despite the warm warm weather), decided Tiong Bahru was the best place to go as it is along the East-West MRT line, and I could get lunch, do some shoe shopping + banking right at Tiong Bahru Plaza as well.

Decided to take a walk from Tiong Bahru Plza, past Kim Tian ….. instead of turning into Yong Siak (where 40 Hands is) as previously done so, walked straight where I would pass by Moh Guan Terrace. Missed out on the stretch during my last exploration back in March.

First up, Flock Cafe at #01-25, 78 Moh Guan Terrace. Googled a bit on the MRT ride and found pretty good reviews for Flock’s brunch and coffee. As I was not in the mood for any western style brunch (might have eaten at Flock if I managed to leave my house earlier) – so Flock will be on my to-try list for future brunches!

Just further down the road was #01-19 …. Where Bincho/Hua Bee is!

Some backstory on this coffeeshop. This was the coffeeshop where Eric Khoo’s ‘Mee Pok Man’. A unique combo of the old and new – where it is Hua Bee’s meepok in the daytime ….. and Bincho (located right inside) taking over for dinner at night (they serve lunch as well). Would have loved to have the mee pok for a genuiely local experience but the crowd kinda put me off. Am curious enough to want to try out Bincho one fine day (should I decide to pay for an atas Japanese omakase dinner one day) since it is one of Loh Lik Peng’s concept 😛

Walked further on and I was onto the long stretch of Seng Poh Road next. Right beside Seng Poh Road was Tiong Bahru Market and Hawker Centre. Since I was badly craving for some local food, decided to have my lunch here. Got myself a cold solid soy bean drink ($1) ….. followed by fishball noodles from Hui Ji (yet another solid recommendation from Daniel Food Diary). The noodles and fishball were both very QQ, only slight minus was that the dried sauce was a bit on the saltier side though. But really generous portion for $2.50!

After lunch, walked all the way down to Tiong Bahru Bakery, and continued on to the end of Eng Hoon Street, where I spotted this Monkey temple which J told me has a lot of worshippers on select days. You can read more about the Qi Tian Gong Temple here.

Its really hot so ended my walk here, and hopped onto a bus at the nearest bus stop (next to Sin Hoi Sai tze char) to head back towards home.